The source of the meteorites
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in News, Planets, Space, Stuff | 2 Comments »They were ejected from their asteroidal “parent body” after a collision, were injected into a new orbit, and they finally felt onto the Earth. Meteorites are a major tool for knowing the history of the solar system because their composition ...
Asteroid Impacts On Earth
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in News, Planets, Space, Stuff | Comments OffA century ago this week, an event in far-off Siberia rang a cosmic wake-up call for Earth. That explosive event over remote Tunguska is generally viewed by scientists as a large space rock that pierced through the atmosphere of Siberia, ...
